Redemption
The meaning of
redemption is to make a trade or purchase; by paying a price that all interested
parties agree upon, one, or more, individuals, who have assets, can trade these
assets for some other desired commodity. Without assets, one is powerless to
redeem the desired commodity from its present owner. By breaking the eternal
laws we lose our souls, so that they are no longer ours. Our bodies were
gifts from God, and they are by disobedience forfeited back to the dust. Our
eternal spirit, which was intended to follow our body into the heavenly The meaning of
redemption is to make a trade or purchase, but because of our sin we are
morally dirt-poor! We have no assets to bargain with. What sort of currency will be
accepted by him who holds claim on our spirit? He will accept nothing but seeing
the transgressor in agony as life and blood is drained out unto death! But we,
the transgressors, have no life to offer! We already sold it. Neither do we
have blood that has not been contaminated by our actions. We have nothing to
trade with. The meaning of
redemption, to make a trade, can still be executed, if there is a third
person, who has what to bargain with, who is willing to make this transaction
for me, and for every other transgressor. It would have to be someone with a
huge account and no debts of his own. I would have to be someone who would have
a motive for suffering, bleeding and dying, over and over, millions of times in
a few short hours. What kind of motive would bring a man to do something like
that? When the price is paid,
the meaning of redemption is that the redeemer is now the owner! I should therefore
treat my body, that Jesus has bought, as a There
are two kinds of redemption: 1) Conditional
redemption is synonymous with eternal life. It comes by the grace of God -
coupled with good works - and includes redemption from the effects of both the
temporal and spiritual fall. Those so redeemed become sons and daughters in the
Lord's kingdom and inherit all things. And this is the chief sense in which the
term redemption is used in the scriptures. 2) Unconditional
redemption is redemption from the effects of the temporal - but not the
spiritual fall. It consists in obtaining the free gift of immortality - but
being denied eternal life which God gives to all the obedient who turns unto
him in faith. It comes by grace alone - without works. Redemption
comes through the Holy Messiah; the
conditional part unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit
because of the life they have lived, and the unconditional part unto everyone
who has ever lived. So, in this one sense Jesus has saved every one from death. Eternal
laws prescribe that the salvation-part of redemption requires that the hopefuls
be baptized unto repentance, through faith on his
name. Though the Lord surely should come to redeem his people, yet "he
should not come to redeem them in
their sins, but to redeem them from
their sins. And he hath power given unto him from the Father to redeem them from their sins because of repentance. So,
Jesus sends righteous men and women to explain the meaning of redemption, and
to testify to it. These angels declare
the tidings of the conditions of repentance, which brings the power of the Redeemer
unto the salvation of their souls. Those who are found guiltless will sing
praises with the choirs above. These are they who dwell with God and have
eternal life, being redeemed by the Lord. Full redemption is a blessing
reserved for the saints. The
Lord says that the unbelieving cannot be redeemed from their spiritual fall,
because they repent not.
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